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Jul 23, 2012

Fruits Of My Labor

Well, here's the fruits of my labor after playing around with some different materials this weekend.

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I'm having fun making hoops, covering them with recycled sari silk and various colored ribbons and wrapping them with the darkened annealed steal wire and adding a few little seed beads and crystals - too fun!!

I love how copper can look on different surfaces and with different colored backgrounds - it's such a cool metal!

I'm gearing up for the Annual Nutrioso BBQ and craft show this weekend up here White Mountains of Arizona and so some of these are going to be put on display there, but several will be in my Etsy shop next week as well.

I'm limited to what items I have up here at my sis's cabin, but it's stretching my creativity to play with what I have. I even forgot my LOS, so no dark metals other than the ones I made up prior to coming back up here - oh well - I'm still having fun!

Someone asked me if my being here at the cabin fueled my creativity or did it just make it too hard to create, being in such a beautiful area and wanting to just enjoy my surroundings. The answer is a little bit of both!

I didn't think of it as being a gypsy vibe,... the gray ones looked totally more grunge to me, but I love Gypsy, so I'll take that any day!

I was trying to mimick my sari silk and wire wrapped "bangles w/dangles" that I did for a class last year, but they came out differently than intened - which can be a good thing,....I really like the 'rain in the forest' ones - they're my fav's! And they will end up being given to my sister!! LOL!! They are SOOOOO her!

So lovely to see, that in the end, your time at the cabin did inspire some wonderful creativity. Love the Grunge line of hoops that resulted. Love the subtle colors of silk that show through the wire wrapping. Bravo! I'm sure this new line will connect with folks at the craft fair.

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